Word: duchamps
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...know maps are becoming obsolete because we’ve started framing them and hanging them on museum walls. And if there’s anything Marcel Duchamp taught us, it’s that as soon as you stick something in a museum, it becomes art. I myself have got a lovely piece sticky-gummed to the wall above my bed. It’s a big map of the Grand Canyon—a satellite photograph with roads and cities superimposed in enhanced colors. It would be completely useless as a navigational tool, but it?...
...cooking with gas. Forget Cate, Nicole or any of the other expected hopefuls - Harvek Milos Krumpetzki, an eccentric Polish migrant with pallid skin and ears protruding like Duchamp urinals, is Australia's unlikeliest Oscar contender. Last month the fictional Krumpet's life epic, from his Polish pine-forest birth before World War II to his Alzheimer's fug in a Melbourne retirement village, garnered his Claymation creator a nod for Best Short Film (Animated) at next week's Academy Awards ceremony. Up against toon titans Pixar, Disney and Blue Sky, Elliot and his tragicomic creation, who endures Tourette's syndrome...
...wants you to admire the hard new beauty of a plain steel mechanism. But there's no mistaking the libidinous headway in this picture. Those muscular steel drive shafts, that little spurt of steam in the lower right--Sheeler's superchief is as full of winking sex as Marcel Duchamp's Great Glass. It's also funnier because it keeps such a straight face...
...another explanation. What makes British contemporary art world-famous is "the way the British media have latched onto young artists. We don't have that in France." With the Turner Prize acting as the main vector for that media attention in Britain, it's inevitable that the Marcel Duchamp Prize's founders should have adopted it as their model. "The Turner Prize has contributed to the emergence of British artists who have gone on to acquire international reputations," says Fuchs. "This prize aims to boost the visibility of French artists...
...little inconvenient, then, that Gonzalez-Foerster says she's never thought of herself as a French artist at all. But perhaps that is only fitting. The organizers may have chosen his name as a symbol for French artistic innovation, but they neglect to point out that Marcel Duchamp died an American...